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Simone de Beauvoir the Memorialist: The Running Threads Connecting Us

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Abstract

This article considers the recent publications of French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, and offers an overview of contemporary scholarship in Beauvoir Studies. Beauvoir’s canonization in Gallimard’s La Pléiade collection in 2018 is discussed, specifically Gallimard’s choice of Beauvoir’s Mémoires for these first two volumes. Exploring the imbrication of Beauvoir’s philosophy with her own lived experience, the article traces what Annie Ernaux describes as the ‘running threads’ connecting us, namely the ways in which Beauvoir’s legacy is interwoven in our lives today. Surveying recent scholarship highlights the pertinence of Beauvoir’s work to contemporary contexts on issues ranging from sexual violence, subjective agency and female subjugation to emancipatory politics and transnational feminist solidarities. Thereafter, the importance Beauvoir placed on self–Other relations is explored in relation to scholarship on Beauvoir’s epistolary exchanges, the publication of her lost novella Les Inséparables, and on Beauvoir’s philosophy of alterity and old age in light of the pandemic.

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Author(s): Henry-Tierney P

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Paragraph

Year: 2023

Volume: 46

Issue: 2

Pages: 259-274

Print publication date: 01/07/2023

Online publication date: 01/06/2023

Acceptance date: 07/03/2023

ISSN (print): 0264-8334

ISSN (electronic): 1750-0176

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

URL: https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2023.0433

DOI: 10.3366/para.2023.0433

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